Karen D. Schwartz

There are three very nervous small business owners tapping their old-fashioned pencils against their aging PCs at this minute, waiting to see if they have won the coveted $100,000 Microsoft and Dell are offering to the small business with the greatest need through its Microsoft Total Technology Makeover contest. All three businesses-Gymstars Gymnastics, MouCo Cheese […]

Despite escalating costs and sometimes spotty support, many midsize companies are reluctant to throw in the towel on their ERP systems. According to a new study from IDC, 83 percent of companies with 100 to 999 employees would stick with the same vendor despite cost and change issues. The reason, said the study’s author, IDC […]

SAP and Intel are knitting together their software and hardware, announcing Xeon-run servers rigged up with SAP software for midmarket companies in manufacturing, service and trade. The Intel-SAP offering, which SAP announced at CeBIT on March 4, will include SAP’s Business All-in-One business management software and servers running on Intel’s Xeon processors. The offering will […]

If CompTIA has its way, Congress will pass a host of initiatives that will make life easier for small and midsize businesses. The Computing Technology Industry Association, an industry group dedicated to IT, on Feb. 25 announced its legislative priorities for 2008. Broadly categorized into three areas-investing in the U.S. work force, promoting innovation and […]

Yahoo has sweetened the pot for small and midsize businesses with an all-you-can-eat plan. On Feb. 6, Yahoo introduced a flat-rate Web hosting plan called Yahoo Web Hosting. The monthly price of $11.95 includes unlimited disk space, data transfer and e-mail storage, as well as Web site design tools, a free domain name, 1,000 personalized […]

Small, public companies have gotten yet another reprieve from having to comply with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2004, thanks to last week’s decision by the Securities and Exchange Commission to delay requiring small public companies to comply with SarbOx and its complex Section 404. The SEC’s decision-to delay compliance for one year, until fiscal years […]

Mitch freeman can envision the day when his software development team is nimble and responsive, able to support all the technology needs of his agency, and comply with the standards set forth by his agency’s governing body.Freeman, chief of application management and support services at Veterans Affairs Canada, is charged with modernizing the way his […]

Tech Data has inked a deal with Fujitsu that will see it become the only distributor in the United States to carry the vendors Eternus storage area network solutions through its network of VARs. Tech Data will distribute the entire Fujitsu Eternus line of SAN-attached storage systems, including the Eternus 2000, 4000 and 8000 modular […]

YouTube has taken a big step in the past few days in its effort to stop the copyright lawsuits from piling up by announcing an intention to implement video recognition technology—video fingerprints—by the fall of 2007. The technology will complement the companys use of Audible Magic, which identifies audio copyright violations, with a video component. […]